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More from Australia now: the country’s top economic and financial regulators are about to hold a snap meeting to talk through the impact of Donald Trump’s tariffs.
The high-powered meeting convened by the Australian treasurer, Jim Chalmers, will reportedly take place on Wednesday and include the heads of the central bank and the banking, business and consumer watchdogs, according to Nine media, cited by Australian Associated Press.
“It’s a confidence-building measure with the electorate to say, ‘Look, we’re getting our best brains together to work out how we diversify our markets, how we adjust our economy, how we get ready for this’,” former ambassador to the US Arthur Sinodinos told a Nine TV program.
It’s the sort of thing you’d expect any government to do.
